Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matronly Bess Truman the week brought two minor troubles and one triumph...
Esteemed through six major wars and scores of minor ones, in peacetime the Army influence has always been suspect. Yet the sight of West Point on parade is always heart-quickening.. One good and typical reason could be found in the young stalwart who led the parade this week. Chosen by the Tactical Officers last June to command the Corps of Cadets during his final year, First Cadet Captain Robert Evans ("Woody") Woods was not necessarily the brainiest (he was 605th at graduation), the most personable, nor the most popular member of his class. He was chosen because...
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor (Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 12 sides). Except for the serene adagio movement, Rodzinski's treatment is heavyhanded. Performance: fair. Recording: good...
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). Pedantic Brahms would raise an eyebrow at Ormandy's changes of tempo, but he would find it pretty good music just the same. Performance and recording: good...
...story about one of the minor U.S. minorities-California's Paisanos, the indigent descendants of the original Indians and Spanish settlers. One of them, an amiable no-good (Arturo de Cordova), is trying to make time with a young woman (Dorothy Lamour) who is interested only in her boy friend Benny, at war in the Pacific. Between failures with her, the no-good succeeds in some fine gypping of Benny's naive old father (J. Carrol Naish...